Complete Developer Podcast
394 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 101 ratingsA podcast by coders for coders about all aspects of life as a developer.
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12 Week Year Overview
January 26, 2023 07:00 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MBParkinson's Law is an adage that work will expand to fill the time allotted for its completion. We typically understand this law to mean that allotting too much time to a task will cause the task to expand and waste time. However, it is much more useful viewed in the reverse, that allotting less time will make you more efficient. Read more › The post 12 Week Year Overview appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Everyone Listening Is Fired
January 19, 2023 07:00 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBWe react to Mike Acton's 2019 talk "Everyone Watching This Is Fired" by going through his "50 things he expects of developers" and discussing them, or as many as we can in an hour. If you haven't watched his video check out the link in the show notes. Read more › The post Everyone Listening Is Fired appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Time Management Baseline
January 12, 2023 07:00 - 52 minutes - 48 MBThis year's theme is time management. However, if everything is chaotic, it's kind of difficult to build a robust time management system that you can trust. Read more › The post Time Management Baseline appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Predictions 2023
January 05, 2023 07:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBIt's been an interesting year for many of us, with lots of changes. There have been both upsides and downsides to this year, and most of us have had to grow a lot. This is the first episode of 2023. Read more › The post Predictions 2023 appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Resolutions 2023
December 29, 2022 07:00 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MB2022 was an interesting year. It brought a lot of unexpected yet not entirely unwelcome changes for both of us and for the podcast. As we review our resolutions we'll see how SMART our goals really were and then we'll discuss the yearly theme. Read more › The post Resolutions 2023 appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Time Management Mistakes
December 22, 2022 07:00 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBHave you ever wanted to write a book, start a business, learn a new skill, learn to play a musical instrument, change careers, or simply become world class at something you like to do? Did you try for a bit, only to realize that you didn't have time to do it, that you couldn't achieve your goal? Read more › The post Time Management Mistakes appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Being A Good Follower
December 15, 2022 07:00 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBWe hear a lot about how to be a good leader, but rarely about how to be a good follower. If we are all leading then who is following? Following isn't about blindly agreeing with leadership but instead is the ability to work within any role to improve yourself, your team, and your organization. Read more › The post Being A Good Follower appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Creating A Nightly Routine
December 08, 2022 07:00 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBMany people will tell you the importance of a morning routine, however without a nightly routine our evenings are all over the place and we are left with sleepless nights, but not in Seattle. To improve sleep and rest we have to look at habit formation and building routines and rituals into our evenings. Read more › The post Creating A Nightly Routine appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Integration Code Smells
December 01, 2022 07:00 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBIntegration points in complex systems have a tendency to surprise you, usually in an unpleasant fashion. While it takes a while to discover the underlying antipatterns that caused the system to have problems, there are certain "smells" you can look for that indicate common sources of issues. Read more › The post Integration Code Smells appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Add Value On Your First Day
November 24, 2022 07:00 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBSo you got a new job and you are starting in a couple of days. You are probably both excited and anxious. What will the first day be like? If you are like many people, your first day at a new job will be something that happens to you, rather than something you control. Not ideal. Read more › The post Add Value On Your First Day appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Millionaire Mindset
November 17, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBThe millionaire mindset is a common phrase in the hustle culture of people who are working hard to better themselves and make their world a better place. But what exactly does it mean? Read more › The post Millionaire Mindset appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Today Is The Day To Stop Procrastinating
November 10, 2022 07:00 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBProcrastination is an insidious venom that slowly eats away at us by making us think we have plenty of time to do the things we need to do but may not want to do. Today is the day to stop procrastinating! Read more › The post Today Is The Day To Stop Procrastinating appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
10 Rules To Be A Good Engineer
November 03, 2022 06:00 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBYou write code and solve problems, but are you a good engineer? Are there things you can do to improve yourself and be a better developer? What does it take to be a good software developer? Read more › The post 10 Rules To Be A Good Engineer appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Downsides of Self Employement
October 27, 2022 06:00 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBLots of developers are self-employed. While many are happy, there are some pitfalls to the process that can trip up the unwary. From taxes, to interpersonal relationships, being self-employed will teach you a lot of things, but you really don't want to learn the hard way. Read more › The post Downsides of Self Employement appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Layoff Resilience
October 20, 2022 06:00 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBThere is definitely a cycle to the financial system. Things get easier for a while, and then things get harder. While we don't want to delve into the reasons too deeply, there's a pretty good chance that some rough times are coming. Read more › The post Layoff Resilience appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Managing Large Refactorings
October 13, 2022 06:00 - 41 minutes - 38 MBAs a project becomes more successful, it almost always gets larger. Over time, teams usually get larger as well. Eventually, this means that the previous structure of the application becomes insufficient and needs to be refactored. Read more › The post Managing Large Refactorings appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Difficult Conversations
October 06, 2022 06:00 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBDifficult conversations are not easy or fun, hence the term difficult. Maintaining interpersonal relationships in the workplace involves problem solving and a fair amount of compromise when dealing with difficult situations. Read more › The post Difficult Conversations appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Database Indexing Mistakes
September 29, 2022 06:00 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MBIf you aren't constantly dealing with the database, you probably have some misconceptions about how indexes work. These misconceptions not only tend to bite you, but they tend to do so at the worst possible time, when your system is under load or when you've just rolled out a new feature. Read more › The post Database Indexing Mistakes appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Basic Psychological Needs of Motivation
September 22, 2022 06:00 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBWhat motivates you when the rewards seem far off? What drives you to keep pushing when you are tired and worn out? It's not likely the pay or some big reward at the end. It is your own intrinsic motivation. Read more › The post Basic Psychological Needs of Motivation appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Tradeoffs of Single Page Applications
September 15, 2022 06:00 - 46 minutes - 43.1 MBIn many development shops, Single Page Applications (or SPAs) are the user interface of choice, especially if they are already in use in other systems. While this is often a laudable and reasonable choice, it's a good idea to understand the tradeoffs of going with this approach. Read more › The post Tradeoffs of Single Page Applications appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Success Stabilizers
September 08, 2022 06:00 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBYou've made it, you've accomplished your goals. Now what? How do you continue to be successful? Success and failure are intertwined and success if not stable can lead to failure. Read more › The post Success Stabilizers appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Better Dashboards
September 01, 2022 06:00 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBIf you are lucky, someone will tell you what they actually want on a dashboard when they tell you to make one. If you're unlucky, you probably are going to have to figure it out as you go. Thankfully, there are some principles you can apply that will help you create application dashboards that are useful. Read more › The post Better Dashboards appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
PCI Compliance
August 25, 2022 06:00 - 45 minutes - 42.2 MBBreaches of payment systems are extremely serious. It's a great way not only to have major business problems, but to look like an idiot in front of all your clients, while causing them all kinds of headaches, including potentially emptying their bank accounts. Read more › The post PCI Compliance appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
OWASP Top Ten 2021
August 18, 2022 06:00 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBA major security vulnerability will be found in someone's web application this week. The OWASP Top Ten list of web application vulnerabilities has recently been updated. Read more › The post OWASP Top Ten 2021 appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Under Skilled Seniors
August 11, 2022 06:00 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBWhen you started your career, you might well have been in awe of the senior developers, at least for the first job or two. Later, you might still be impressed with some of them, but others will seem like they were promoted past their abilities. Read more › The post Under Skilled Seniors appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
HTTP Verbs
August 04, 2022 06:00 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBHTTP or hypertext transfer protocol is a protocol for transferring documents: HTML, images, etc. between a client, usually a web browser and a server. HTTP verbs or HTTP methods are codified forms of communication in the client-server relationship. Read more › The post HTTP Verbs appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
The Great Resignation
July 28, 2022 06:00 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBTowards the tail end of covid times (or still in the middle of them, depending on where you live), a lot of news articles started talking about a phenomenon called The Great Resignation. While you probably have a rough idea of what's going on, it's well worth further discussion, because many of its implications are going to reverberate in the software industry for years to come. Read more › The post The Great Resignation appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Steps To Critical Thinking
July 21, 2022 06:00 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBCritical thinking is about knowing how to organize and understand a problem or decision and come to conclusion. It is necessary for avoiding cognitive bias in advanced problem solving skills and decision making. Read more › The post Steps To Critical Thinking appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Better Meeting Notes
July 14, 2022 06:00 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MBMeetings are a fact of life and nearly everyone could improve the way that they take notes. There is nothing worse than sitting through a long meeting and then later having to ask a bunch of questions that were answered in that meeting. It wastes time and leads to a lot of mistakes. Read more › The post Better Meeting Notes appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Resilience Through Consistency
July 07, 2022 06:00 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBResilience is the ability to recover quickly. Having consistent patterns of behavior helps you to know where to jump back in when something knocks you off your regular schedule requiring you to be resilient. Read more › The post Resilience Through Consistency appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Monorepos
June 30, 2022 06:00 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBAs development teams grow, the number of code repositories used by them grows as well. Over time, this ends up making some things more complicated than they have to be. You've probably heard of companies putting everything in a single repository. Is this the answer to the problem? Read more › The post Monorepos appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Resilience In Stress
June 23, 2022 06:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBNo matter how efficient you are, when you get stressed your productivity drops. It is important to be resilient in stress so that you can overcome stressful situations. Read more › The post Resilience In Stress appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Systems Thinking
June 16, 2022 06:00 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBIf you've worked on complex or distributed systems at all, at some point you've seen them produce behavior that is predictable in hindsight, but that you never would have predicted yourself. Systems take on a life of their own, especially as different parts are developed at different rates by different people. Read more › The post Systems Thinking appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
7 Habits of Unsuccessful People
June 09, 2022 06:00 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBEveryone has habits, behaviors they do on a regular, daily basis. These habits are either moving you toward your goals and success or they are holding you back from them. Read more › The post 7 Habits of Unsuccessful People appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Resilient UX
June 02, 2022 06:00 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBUser interfaces are hard to get right, especially for developers. While the nitty gritty details are better left to design podcasts, there are some simple rules that developers can keep in mind when building UI and UX. While not perfect, they will get you a long way. Read more › The post Resilient UX appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Mental Downtime
May 26, 2022 06:00 - 43 minutes - 40 MBWe all need some regular relaxation to avoid burnout. Downtime is a brain break from all the internal processing that our minds do daily and even helps to improve productivity. Read more › The post Mental Downtime appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
App Migrations Resilience
May 19, 2022 06:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MBWhen you replace a running legacy system with a new system, it can be tempting to do it all at once. However, doing so courts disaster and makes the process much more painful than it has to be. Even though it sounds easier, a sudden system cutover is seldom pleasant. Read more › The post App Migrations Resilience appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
The People You Will Lead
May 12, 2022 06:00 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBWhether you are a manager, team lead, or executive you will lead several types of people during your time in leadership. From the too reliant who comes to you for everything to the grizzled veteran who has been coding longer than you've owned a computer understanding team dynamics is important. It can be difficult to know how to motivate and lead all the types of people on your team. Read more › The post The People You Will Lead appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Package Supply Chain Attacks
May 05, 2022 06:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBWhile it's nice to be able to pull in packages to do various things in our projects, we need to think long and hard about how we are going to maintain those dependencies over time, in particular in how they relate to security. Supply chain attacks on software components are only going to get worse over time. Read more › The post Package Supply Chain Attacks appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Methods of Thinking
April 28, 2022 06:00 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MBJust like there are multiple ways to use a computer there is more than one way to use your mind. Many different ways exist to focus your thoughts from study and meditation to creating mind maps. Understanding these will help you improve your concentration. Read more › The post Methods of Thinking appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Database Resilience
April 21, 2022 06:00 - 41 minutes - 38.5 MBYour database is probably the most valuable part of your application, and it can be terrifying to think of it falling apart. Yet, that is just a day in the average developer's life in many companies. Read more › The post Database Resilience appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Types of Thinking
April 14, 2022 06:00 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBUnderstanding how you think will help you to improve your ability to learn, understanding how others think will guide you in utilizing their talents to compliment your own. Whether it's creative thinking, divergent thinking or any of the other types of thinking you will benefit from understanding and applying your style of thinking to critical thinking skills. Read more › The post Types of Thinking appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Third Party Integrations
April 07, 2022 06:00 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBEventually management will ask you to evaluate third party integrations for your software. Whether it is for authentication, sending emails, or other functionality, there are times when it makes more sense to use third party software instead of building it yourself. However, many developers are not used to having to do this sort of thing, which makes it difficult. Read more › The post Third Party Integrations appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Leading By Influence
April 01, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBIt can be easy to fall into the thinking that when I'm in charge I'll do things differently. You do not have to have authority to be a leader instead you can exhibit leadership through influence. From choosing positivity to critical thinking skills there are many things you can do to be a leader even when you don't have any authority. Read more › The post Leading By Influence appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Better Pull Requests
March 31, 2022 06:00 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBWhen you work with other people in a codebase, at some point you have to merge your code into the main branch. The code should be reviewed before that happens in order to keep quality high on the branch that is deployed to production and is used to start other branches. Read more › The post Better Pull Requests appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Package Management
March 24, 2022 06:00 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBWhile you probably have lots of code in your codebase that you are proud of, it's almost certain that you didn't write all or even most of the code that executes while your application is running. Code reuse has always been a critical part of software development, but it's important to get it right. Read more › The post Package Management appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Time Management Resilience
March 17, 2022 06:00 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBYour time is the most valuable and most scarce resource that you have. If you don't protect it and use it appropriately, everything else that you want from your life is out of your reach. It is critically important to protect it, but it can be difficult when small problems completely disrupt your day. Read more › The post Time Management Resilience appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Understanding Memory
March 10, 2022 07:00 - 38 minutes - 35.8 MBUnderstanding memory can be a tricky thing, especially the deeper into a computer system you get. To help understand it a hierarchy of memory was conceptualized. This triangular shape helps to visualize the different levels of physical memory storage in a system. Read more › The post Understanding Memory appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Bad Abstractions
March 03, 2022 07:00 - 38 minutes - 35.8 MBDevelopers like to abstract things. Abstraction gives us a lot of benefit, but there are times when we need to reign in our enthusiasm for it. It's past time we discussed when abstractions are not useful or are actively harmful. Read more › The post Bad Abstractions appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.
Discipline to Achieve Your Goals
February 24, 2022 07:00 - 43 minutes - 39.4 MBWe are reaching the time of year when resolutions and goals start to fall away. Being disciplined is an inconvenience, it's hard work but to reach big goals we need to be disciplined in what it takes to achieving goals. Read more › The post Discipline to Achieve Your Goals appeared first on Complete Developer Podcast.